Self-healing
materials are far from
revolutionary, but a team of gurus at France's National Center for Scientific Research has teamed up with Arkema to create a newfangled material that can literally reattach itself if simply pressed together after a break. Reportedly, the self-mending takes place due to weak hydrogen bonds that mesh networks of ditopic and tritopic molecules back together, essentially acting as a kind of "atomic glue." The matter is able to reconnect with any long lost pieces at room temperature (at least 68°F), and apparently, creators are already looking to commercialize their discovery and get products on the shelves within two years. So much for breakaway cables, eh?
[Via
Physorg]
posted Feb 22nd 2008 1:58PM
trojan man!
you sir, win the intarwebz
I knew I was under-surveillance. I was working on this in my cellar for years, but now those sneaky frogs have stolen my invention.
How will I Bounce Back from this....
Thats apples and oranges asshat. Of course we want to know what the weather will be tomorrow. And if this product was coming to store shelves tomorrow, maybe engadget being off a few days would matter. But thats hardly the case is it? Please go back to wherever you came from, no one is buying what your selling.
sorry >< that was ment to be a responce to this
soviet_vexxer @ Feb 22nd 2008 2:47PM
so you think it would be ok to turn on the news and hear, " three days ago the weather was sunny" as opposed to what it will be like today or tomorrow.
wow this is old news. it seems like every post on here lately was on gizmodo 3 days ago.
Prepare to have your comment deleted for mentioning the evil G word.
It also seems like the net has yet to allow me a single day that I can read engadget without some moron posting "I saw this X days ago on *insert tech site here*. You guys are really behind" Do you really think we care at all that you already read about this? We didn't. And if we had, we would have to common sense enough not to be an ass about it and try to flaunt our amazing e-peen around the room and make ourselves feel better about still being a virgin. Now run along up stairs, I think your mom is calling you out of the basement.
And Engadget shouldn't post it why? Anyways I don't visit asshat sites that allow their people to act like asshats while at CES. Dick.
so you think it would be ok to turn on the news and hear, " three days ago the weather was sunny" as opposed to what it will be like today or tomorrow.
well...the difference is that three days ago till now this news has not changed.....has the weather?....again your nickles are showing...or lack thereof....weather isn't news anyway....who doesn't have the ability to go/look outside and see what the weather is? besides what are you going to do when they say the same forcast on the other channels?.....scary isn't it....try another analogy
Hmph!
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Gizmodo&word2=Engadget
Owned.
why are you even registered on this site if you're going to just sit there and be like, oh, I saw this x days ago somewhere else. Oh, and being pale from lack of sunlight is really not a good look.
Geez engadget, you're way behind the times.
My friend Pierre was working on this over in Paris, and even though he's under NDA, he told me about it a whole month ago in a super-secret conversation. You're so behind, why even bother reporting it a month late?
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=googlefight&word2=waste+of+time
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Could prevent breaking condoms if it doesn''t accidentally reattach to wrong place.
heh yeah theres something inherently disturbing about wrapping it up in something described as "atomic glue."
Self-repairing robot skin. Thanks a lot, guys. Prepare to be hunted down by Sarah Connor.
68F?
Too bad I try to keep my apartment at a frigid 65 year round.
Farenheit?
Don't use AS, and don't use farenheit. They need to die. So what they really mean is:
20 C
thanks
~an american with his head on straight
Wow...
@ ethana2:
the first american i've heard who uses celsius. congrats! fahrenheit is so out-dated.
"Living tissue over hyper-alloy endoskeleton"
?!
Part of it is made from urine....leave it to the french to make something out of piss and turn a profit.
If this is true, you are hilarious. ^_^
I hate that you beat me to the mention of this. Grrrr. Of course, I am ashamed of Engadget for failing to mention it. Grrrr.
It's made from peeeeeeeee!
i bet it won't blend.
brilliant.
[votes up]
:-D
That comment was about as dumb as a bag of nickles...I can imagine u watching CNN and wondering why they are running the same story as Fox News or your local news merchants....I actually prefer to read my "news" whenever engadget sees fit to print it....it's not just news....it's interactive information over here.....
is this really a gadget?
God did that with skin eons ago
Yeah but in the words of Mr Samuel Jackson "The only problem is *hot wires car in 2 seconds*, it takes to f*!@ing long" Also, this is engadget, please leave your religious bias at the door when you come in next time.
AMEN!
Leave religion at the door? Uh... freedom of speech(and religion)? I am a Christian no matter where I go.
even if i was a thiest, i would admit to this being better, as the repair times seem nigh instantaneous... fortunately im an athiest, however, and I find competing with what I consider to be a non-entity to be largely redundant :-)
in the words of David Cross "its what's referred to as a joke..."
Am I missing something? what would this be useful for?
so you're saying that YOUR T1000 never needs repairs?
so you're saying that YOUR T1000 never needs repairs?
teehee. no!
tires that stop slow leaks.
Just becaues TTSCC has started, and a new film is on the way doesn't mean you can nerd out on Terminator references.
And I keep my T1000 spotless.
Isn't this the rubber that's made out of piss? I seem to recall reading about this the other day but that it was made with urine. No thanks.
y'know, I'm amazed no one has asked this, but how resilient is the material to begin with?
"oh sure, it can patch itself back together easier than anything, course, it sure as hell better with how often it falls apart..."
this would be great for rubber medical gloves. (u know, the kind that u inflate and then drop it in a toilet?) =)
Is this stuff cheap to produce? If so, if this stuff were to be mademore dense, it could serve as a "permanent" road surface. No more potholes or cracks on interstate highways. Unless the sun bakes thisstuff or the water makes it slimy, that would suck...
Hasn't Silly Putty been able to do this for years?
Not as impressive as the self-healing metal from the Roswell crash.
Will it blend, that is the question!